Taking on a complex task
In this context, a complex task is defined as one with multiple steps over a long time period, and one where the one(s) in charge don’t necessarily know everything about what’s coming over time. A...
View ArticleTwo essential questions
A few days ago, a colleague of mine launched her portfolio website. Of course I couldn’t help picking the holes, which brought me back to two questions that apply to any marketing effort someone is...
View ArticleVideo quicktip roundup
If you need to install Final Cut Studio 2 (FCP6) on a Mac running OS X Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8), you should either have a Snow Leopard Installer Disc at hand to install Rosetta first (from...
View ArticleThe bachelor box
Last weekend I’ve been reviewing a senior thesis, the lecture of which brought me to the simple question: What’s the use? Most of this kind of effort is devoted to paraphrasing knowledge from books,...
View ArticleIt’s a game, but different
We all know them, the often motivationally intended comparisons of organisations, working teams, to sports teams. Or armies. But let’s stick with the sports. The shortcoming with these comparisons:...
View Article3 + 1 Magic Ingredients
For people to bring out their best it takes 3 ingredients (i.e. prerequisites to be provided): Infrastructure Knowledge Responsibility What about time, you might ask. As defined per Doctor Who, time is...
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This might Change your Life
“Modern” thinking says people ought to create a balance between “work” and “life”. I disagree, because it just so happened (under a combination of circumstances that has been unique in my life) that I...
View ArticleOpposing Forces
Have you ever felt the pain of unfulfilled potential? I’m referring to the (at first) external one, a circumstance that causes you a regular dissatisfaction with the status quo. This can range from a...
View ArticleThe Single One Policy (an Organisation needs to follow)
“We believe that everyone we have a relationship with, regardless of the kind of relationship, will contribute to the continuous process of becoming better at what we do as an organisation as well as...
View Article1,000,000,000 failures
Today it was announced that last year’s spendings in online advertising have been more than one billion Euros in Germany alone for the first time in Internet history. Here’s a thought: Has any company...
View ArticleProjects are doomed when…
… there is no desire to assign or take responsibility right from the start. … there is no desire to make it happen. … there is no desire to do it better than the last time. … there is no desire to keep...
View ArticleBeing Joe Average
Facebook suggests the biggest advantage they offer for advertisers is higher relevancy of ads because they’re able to match them to the individual member’s preferences. But what happens when members...
View ArticleAchievement
What we achieve is the compelling result of what we begin and persist with.
View ArticleDe-Interlacing roundtrip
It’s quite amazing that hi-quality de-interlacing of video footage is still an issue not easy to be adressed, especially when it comes to encoding for web and mobile. The basic problem is that your...
View ArticleThe generation myth
Originally I intended to call this post “The Generation Y myth”, based on the article in the German Wikipedia and the links it refers to. But as it happens, I stopped for a second and looked it up in...
View ArticleConnecting to Avid ISIS 5000 on OS X 10.9
Though Avid doesn’t officially support this, it is entirely possible to connect your ISIS5000 Update: As of ISIS v4.6 this article is partially obsolete (see Avid KB). To make it work, you need to have...
View ArticleHow to delight an engineer
If you happen to work with engineers and they’re mostly unhappy with the way they’re being asked about potential projects, or if you’re an engineer in this very situation and your colleagues don’t seem...
View ArticleScope
Every decision we are about to make depends on our scope relevant to it. Which is why you get a variety of answers/solutions to exactly the same question/problem depending on whom you ask. Some...
View ArticleRise of the hacks (commodification vs. democratization)
There is no such thing as democratization of technology. If you think about it, this is quite obvious. Everything being sold as democratization of technology is commodification with glitzy marketing...
View ArticleProGlove / Intel Make It Wearable rant
So there was a German team who came in third at Intel’s Make It Wearable contest. Their ProGlove is an RFID-based assisting system for assembly lines. But: German company sarissa has the same system...
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